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Idiocracy was supposed to be satire. Too extreme to actually happen. We're walking into it voluntarily—just through a different mechanism than the movie imagined.

In this episode, we dive deep into the cognitive cost of frictionless AI use:

- Unpack the latest critical thinking study showing how unguided AI use creates cognitive offloading without improving reasoning

- Explore the five-step structured prompting method that achieves 50%+ improvement in critical thinking

- Analyze why AI companies profit from your dependence, not your independence

- Examine the societal cascade when critical thinking becomes optional—and why you can't escape the consequences

The youngest users are most vulnerable. The economic incentives guarantee it gets worse. And those maintaining cognitive fitness can't escape what happens when society loses the ability to think.

📖 For a deeper exploration and full analysis, check out the article here: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/p/idiocracy-predicted-500-years-of

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